Sexually Transmitted Diseases/what is this

QuestionI am 23 I have had unprotected sex before. I had about 3 bumps pop up spread out on my shaft. No pain,or anything. I popped them and white came out of one and nothing out the others. It bleed a little and since I have had a little pain from soreness from the needle. The picture is it a little irritated from messing with it. Hope u can help.

AnswerHi Danny,
No photo was attached with your question. If you have observed bumps that can express white stuff, than it sounds like either a pimple or sebaceous gland. Stop "messing" with it, and let everything heal! It does not sound like an STD.

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There is no such thing as “d/d free” or “clean” (free of infection), so why do so many of us deceive ourselves into thinking that some people are indeed totally free from a potentially infectious disease, like HIV, herpes, hepatitis, syphilis, chlamydia, warts, gonorrhea, etc., just because they say so? Clinical laboratory tests are not perfect, and having a “negative” or “nonreactive” test does not mean that a person is free from infection. Perhaps at the moment the test was taken, the person was uninfected; or, perhaps, the test wasn’t sensitive enough to detect presence of the infection. There is really no way that anyone can determine that they are truly “disease free,” and there are over a hundred of infectious conditions that can be spread without your knowing anything.
Rather than trying to “pre-screen” or “serosort” a potential sex-mate with deceptive questions that are impossible to know by today’s technologies, a wiser option may be to consider everyone infected with something, and either use appropriate protective measures (“safer sex”), or accept the responsibility and consequences of possibly “catching” something from someone who’s hotter than expected (pun intended!).
There is much research that supports the contention that an HIV positive person reliably taking HIV medications, and having an undetectable viral load, presents a lower risk for transmission of HIV than people who may think or say they are HIV negative, but are not. Food for thought!

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